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Rafał Kalinowski
Rafał Kalinowski, born Józef Kalinowski (1835–1907), was a Polish Discalced Carmelite friar canonized in 1991, remembered for leading the 1863 January Uprising and Siberian exile.
Rafal Klajn
Rafał Klajn is a Polish-born supramolecular chemist known for light-controlled self-assembly of nanoparticles and reactions in confined spaces; he won the 2021 Blavatnik Award in Israel.
Rafał Trzaskowski
Rafał Kazimierz Trzaskowski, Polish Civic Platform politician and political scientist, mayor of Warsaw since 2018, former MEP and government minister, twice presidential runner-up (2020, 2025).
Rafale deal controversy
The Rafale deal controversy, called the Rafale scam by critics, is a dispute in India over its 2016 purchase of 36 Dassault Rafale jets for €7.87 billion.
Rafara Fluctus
Rafara Fluctus is a 700-km-diameter lava flow field (fluctus) on Venus at 65.0S, 159.0E in quadrangle V-58, IAU-approved in 1997 and named for a Malagasy water goddess.
Rafe Spall
Rafe Spall (Rafe Joseph Spall), English actor born 1983 in London, son of Timothy Spall; known for Shaun of the Dead, Prometheus, Life of Pi, The Big Short, Trying, and as Arthur Weasley in HBO's Harry Potter season 2.
Rafeeq Ahamed
Rafeeq Ahamed (റഫീഖ് അഹമ്മദ്), born 1961 in Akkikavu, Thrissur, Kerala, is a Malayalam lyricist, poet, and novelist with five Kerala State Film Awards for Best Lyrics and a Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award.
Rafer Alston
Rafer Alston, aka Skip to My Lou, born 1976, American point guard from Rucker Park streetball and AND1 Mixtape fame; drafted 39th in 1998 by Milwaukee, played 2000-2010, reached 2009 NBA Finals with Orlando, now coaches in Houston.
Rafer Johnson
Rafer Johnson was a distinguished American decathlete who won gold and silver medals in the 1956 and 1960 Olympics, and later helped subduce the RFK assassin in 1968.
Raff Ciccone
Raff Ciccone is an Australian Labor Party politician serving as a Senator for Victoria and as Chair of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security, overseeing national security legislation inquiries.
Raff Law
Raff Law, full name Rafferty Law, is an English actor known for Masters of the Air and the 2021 film Twist, and eldest son of Jude Law.
Raffa (boules)
Raffa is an Italian discipline of boules, one of the three main bocce sport systems alongside pétanque and volo, in which any shot aimed at hitting another ball must first be declared to the referee.
Raffaele De Caterina
Raffaele De Caterina is an Italian cardiologist, born in Benevento in 1954, formerly Full Professor of Cardiovascular Diseases at the University of Pisa and Executive Editor of European Heart Journal.
Raffaele Fitto
Raffaele Fitto is a European Union politician serving since 2024 as Executive Vice-President of the European Commission for Cohesion and Reforms, overseeing cohesion policy, regional development, and cities.
Raffaele Garrucci
Raffaele Garrucci (1812–1885) was an Italian Jesuit archaeologist, epigrapher, and numismatist, called the Father of Jewish epigraphy for publishing about 137 inscriptions from Rome's Vigna Randanini Jewish catacomb.
Raffaele La Capria
Raffaele La Capria (1922–2022) was an Italian novelist, essayist, and screenwriter born in Naples whose best-known novel, Ferito a morte, won the Strega Prize in 1961.
Raffaele Mezzenga
Raffaele Mezzenga is a materials scientist and full professor at ETH Zurich who turns food proteins into amyloid fibrils for water purification and alcohol-detoxifying hydrogels.
Raffaella Buonsanti
Raffaella Buonsanti is an Italian chemist and full professor at EPFL, where she heads the Laboratory of Nanochemistry for Energy and is known for colloidal nanocrystal electrocatalysts for CO2 reduction.
Raffaella Carrà
Raffaella Carrà, stage name of Raffaella Maria Roberta Pelloni, Italian singer, dancer, actress and TV presenter (Bologna 1943 – Rome 2021), famed for Canzonissima, Tuca Tuca, 60 million records sold, stardom in Spain, LGBT-icon status, and posthumous foundation and hologram concert.
Raffaella Leone
Raffaella Leone, born 1961, daughter of director Sergio Leone, is CEO of Italy's Leone Film Group and president/CEO of Lotus Production; producer of FolleMente, Paper Tiger, and shareholder of the AIM-listed group.
Raffaello D'Andrea
Raffaello D'Andrea is an engineer, artist, and entrepreneur who co-founded Kiva Systems, sold to Amazon for $775 million, and founded the Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control at ETH Zurich.
Raffi
Raffi (Րաֆֆի) was the pen name of Hakob Melik-Hakobian, 1835 to 1888, an Armenian novelist best known for The Fool and Samvel and for creating the Armenian historical novel.
Raffia palm
Raffia palm (Raphia, jupatí, wine palm): massive African wetland palms yielding raffia and piassava fiber, palm wine, thatch, and food; monocarpic, with the largest leaves in the plant kingdom and about 100 recorded uses.
Raffinose
Raffinose, also known as gossypose or melitose, is a trisaccharide of galactose, glucose, and fructose found in legume seeds and cottonseed meal, causing flatulence because humans cannot digest it.
Raffles Hotel
Raffles Hotel is a luxury hotel in Singapore, opened in 1887 by the Armenian Sarkies brothers and known as the birthplace of the Singapore Sling.
Raffles Institution
Raffles Institution (RI), founded by Stamford Raffles in June 1823 as Singapore Institution, is Singapore's oldest school, an independent co-ed Bishan institution offering the six-year Raffles Programme Integrated Programme to A Levels.
Raffles' administration of Java
Raffles' administration of Java was the British colonial government of Java from 1811 to 1816, headed by Thomas Stamford Raffles after Britain seized the island during the Napoleonic Wars.
Rafflesia
Rafflesia, the corpse flower genus (Rafflesiaceae), is a Southeast Asian holoparasite on Tetrastigma vines with no leaves, stems, or roots; R. arnoldii bears the world's largest single flower, up to 1 m and 7 kg, smelling of rotting meat.
Rafflesia arnoldii
Rafflesia arnoldii (corpse flower, padma raksasa) is a holoparasitic Sumatran and Bornean plant on Tetrastigma vines, producing the world's largest single flower, up to 1 m across, smelling of rotting meat and pollinated by carrion flies.
Raffy Tulfo
Raffy Tulfo (Rafael Teshiba Tulfo, born 1960) is a Filipino broadcaster and independent-elected senator (2022, 23.4 million votes), host of Wanted sa Radyo (since 1994) and Raffy Tulfo in Action, chaired Senate migrant workers and energy committees.